Flesh vs Organ - What's the difference?
flesh | organ |
The soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat.
*1918 , Fannie Farmer, , Chapter XVII: Poultry and Game:
*:The flesh of chicken, fowl, and turkey has much shorter fibre than that of ruminating animals, and is not intermingled with fat,—the fat always being found in layers directly under the skin, and surrounding the intestines.
The skin of a human or animal.
(by extension) Bare arms, bare legs, bare torso.
(archaic) Animal tissue regarded as food; meat.
*:
*:Thenne syr launcelot sayd / fader what shalle I do / Now sayd the good man / I requyre yow take this hayre that was this holy mans and putte it nexte thy skynne / and it shalle preuaylle the gretely / syr and I wille doo hit sayd sir launcelot / Also I charge you that ye ete no flesshe as longe as ye be in the quest of the sancgreal / nor ye shalle drynke noo wyne / and that ye here masse dayly and ye may doo hit
*c.1530s , , 7, xix-xxi,
*:The flesh' that twycheth any vnclene thinge shall not be eaten. but burnt with fire:and all that be clene in their flesh, maye eate ' flesh .
*:Yf any soule eate of the flesh' of the peaceofferynges, that pertayne vnto the Lorde and hys vnclennesse yet apon him, the same soule shall perisshe from amonge his peoole(sic). ¶ Moreouer yf a soule twych any vnclene thinge, whether it be the vnclennesse of man or of any vnclene beest or any abhominacion that is vnclene: ad the eate of the ' flesh of the peaceoffrynges whiche pertayne vnto the Lord, that soule shall perissh from his people.
The human body as a physical entity.
*c.1530s , , 6, x,
*:And the preast shall put on his lynen albe and his lynen breches apon his flesh , and take awaye the asshes whiche the fire of the burntsacrifice in the altare hath made, and put them besyde the alter,
(religion) The mortal body of a human being, contrasted with the spirit or soul.
*1769 , , 5, xvii,
*:For the flesh' lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the ' flesh : and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
*1929 January, Bassett Morgan ( ,
*:But death had no gift for me, no power to free me from flesh .
(religion) The evil and corrupting principle working in man.
The soft, often edible, parts of fruits or vegetables.
*2003 , Diana Beresford-Kroeger, Arboretum America: A Philosophy of the Forest ,
*:The flesh of black walnuts was a protein-packed winter food carefully hoarded in tall, stilted buildings.
(obsolete) Tenderness of feeling; gentleness.
*Cowper
*:There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
(obsolete) Kindred; stock; race.
*Bible, Genesis xxxvii. 27
*:He is our brother and our flesh .
A yellowish pink colour; the colour of some Caucasian human skin.
:
To bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh.
* 1933 , Robert E. Howard, The Scarlet Citadel
(obsolete) To inure or habituate someone (in) or (to) a given practice.
*, II.7:
To put flesh on; to fatten.
To add details.
To remove the flesh from the skin during the making of leather.
A largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.
(by extension) A body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.
(musical instruments) A musical instrument that has multiple pipes which play when a key is pressed (the pipe organ), or an electronic instrument designed to replicate such.
* , chapter=5
, title= An official magazine, newsletter, or similar publication of an organization.
A species of cactus ().
(slang) The penis.
(obsolete) To supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.
* Bishop Mannyngham
In by extension terms the difference between flesh and organ
is that flesh is bare arms, bare legs, bare torso while organ is a body of an organization dedicated to the performing of certain functions.As nouns the difference between flesh and organ
is that flesh is the soft tissue of the body, especially muscle and fat while organ is a largest part of an organism, composed of tissues that perform similar functions.As verbs the difference between flesh and organ
is that flesh is to bury (something, especially a weapon) in flesh while organ is to supply with an organ or organs; to fit with organs.flesh
English
(wikipedia flesh)Noun
(-)page 81,
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
- Give me a clean sword and a clean foe to flesh it in.
- And whosoever could now joyne us together, and eagerly flesh all our people to a common enterprise, we should make our ancient military name and chivalrous credit to flourish againe.
- The writer had to go back and flesh out the climactic scene.
Derived terms
* exchange flesh * flesh and blood * flesh fly * flesh out * flesh side * flesh-wing * flesh wound * flesher * fleshing * fleshpot * fleshy * goose flesh * in the flesh * one flesh * pound of flesh * press the flesh * proud flesh * way of all fleshSee also
* carrion * incarnate * sarcoid *Anagrams
* ----organ
English
(wikipedia organ) (Pipe organ)Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ , the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
Hyponyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* barrel organ * house organ * internal organ * mouth organ * pipe organ * sense organ * sex organ * storage organ * swell organ * vital organExternal links
* *Verb
(en verb)- Thou art elemented and organed for other apprehensions.